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RE: Problems when Sametime machine is disconnected from network for demo ~Isaac Xanreson 14.Feb.03 09:21 AM a Web browser Sametime Server 2.5Windows NT/2000
Hi.
What you are probably experiencing is that Sametime services fail to start because DNS is not available (you might want to check the sametime.log file as well to confirm this).
A workaround for this is to edit c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and manually add the needed DNS hosts. Note that this file will override DNS - even if DNS is available.
You will at least need to add the hostnames that have been defined in the server document for the ST server.
My experience is that you need to add both the shortname and fully qualified name to the file, e.g.